Musical Style and Social Meaning

Musical Style and Social Meaning

Selected Essays

Scott, Derek B.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2010

374

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Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Music Criticism and Theory: Postmodernism and music: postscript; Modernism, postmodernism and musical consensus; Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation; Mimesis, gesture, and parody in musical word-setting. Part 2 Jazz and Popular Music: The Jazz Age in Britain; Light music and easy listening; The Britpop sound; The challenges of assessing popular music performance in higher education. Part 3 Orientalism, National Identity, and Ideology: Orientalism and musical style; Edward Said and the interplay of music, history, and ideology; Imagining the nation, imagining Europe. Part 4 Politics, Class and Englishness: Music and social class in Victorian London; English national identity and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; The power of music; Imperialism and anti-imperialism in 19th-century popular song; Sullivan's demonic tea-making scene: homage to Weber or parody? Part 5 Ethnicity and Race: The impact of Black performance on the 19th-century stage; A problem of race in directing Die ZauberflA?te; In search of genetically modified music: race and musical style in the 19th century; Index.
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Young Man;Sol Fa;Tonic Sol Fa;Chopin;Casino De Paris;HMV.;Tin Pan Alley;Drawing Room Ballad;Eurovision Song Contest;Dance Bands;Eastern Ethnic Practices;Virginia Minstrels;Blackface Minstrel;Light Orchestras;Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde;International Musicological Congress;La La;La La La;Bruckner's Music;Die Zauberflote;Style Hongrois;Incantation Scene;Galway Bay;La Fille De Madame Angot;Savoy Operas